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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL XV. IVRIGHT, OF MOUNTAIN GROVE, MISSOURI.

TANNING COMPOUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,805, dated April 26, 1892.

Application filed August 8, 1891. Serial No. 402.070. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL WV. IVRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mountain Grove, in the county of WVright and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tanning Com pounds; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Myinvention consists in a tanning compound for tanning hides and all kinds of leather, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

My tanning compound consists of the following ingredients, which are combined in substantially the portions stated, namely: to ten gallons of water add five pounds of dogfennel, one ounce of muriatic acid, one ounce of blue vitriol, (copperas,) five pounds of smart-weed, five ounces of leaf-tobacco, two gallons of lye dripped from horse-manure, two pounds of wheat-flour, one pound of dried ginseng-root, and one pound of hard-wood, ashes, all to be thoroughly commingled and incorporated with each other. These ingredients are to be thoroughly mingled by agitalion and are then ready for use and form a most powerful and effective tanning compound, which is employed in the usual manner for tanning all kinds of leather.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The herein-described tanning compound, consisting of ten gallons of water, five pounds of dog-fennel, one ounce of muriatic acid, one ounce of eopperas, five pounds of smart-weed, five ounces of leaf-tobacco, two gallons of lye from horse-man ure, two pounds of Wheat-flour, one pound of dried ginseng-root, and one pound of hard-wood ashes, all thoroughly commingled and used in the proportions substantially as specified, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

SAMUEL W. IVRIGHT. 

